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APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20.1905.

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JOSEPH J. SHICKLUNA, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,321, dated July 11,1905.

,Application filed February 20, 1 905. Serial No. 246,456.

To all wle/ont t 'nt/ty concern:

Be it known that l, JOSEPH J. SIIIGKLUNA, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful lmprovements in a Combined Guidingand Lighting Device for Cigars, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to cigar-lighting devices and its object isparticularly to provide a device which shall be of the utmost simplicityof operation and in which there shall be a minimum waste or consumptionof fuel while the instrument is actually in use and to attain this endby an apparatus entirely automatic in action.

More particularly, the object of the invention is to provide a device inwhich the operations of turning on and lighting the llame, lighting thecigar, and extinguishing the flame shall be performed by the simplemotion of holding the cigar to the flame.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows an end elevation of anembodiment of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical sections of the valve, showing two differentpositions thereof.

Referring to the drawings, l represents a gas-burner having a tip 2, avalve-cock 3, and an ignition device composed of the platinum-wireterminals 4 5 of an electrical circuit. The valve is arranged to beoperated by an arm G, the position of which is normally controlled andretracted by a spring 7 to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2.The valve then occupies the closed position shown in Fig. 3. One of theterminals 4 is mounted adjacent to the tip of the burner on an insulatedband S in the well-known manner, and the other terminal 5 is carried onthe arm 6 and is electrically connected thereto. The electrical circuitleads-from one pole of the battery, which may be of any suitableconstruction and is not shown in the drawings, to the terminal 4 bymeans of an insulated wire and from the other pole of the battery to thegas-pipe and thence through the arm 6 to the terminal 5. The arm 6 alsocarries a rest or abutment 9 suitable to receive the end of the cigar 10which is to be lighted and so arranged thereon that when the arm ismoved into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 the end of thecigar will be guided to the llame. This rest may be in the form of ahollow cone with a hole through the center for the end of the cigar.

The initial movement of the arm turns the valve toward its openposition, brings the terminals 4 and 5 into contact, and opens thevalve, allowing gas to issue from the burner. Oontinuance of the motioncarries termin al 5 past terminal 4 and causes a spark to pass upontheir separation and ignite the issuing stream of gas. When the arm isreleased, it flies back to its initial position because of the spring'7, thus shutting off the gas and eX- tinguishing the light, and thereit rem ains in position ready to be used again.

The operation of the device is as follows: The llame is normallyextinguished. A person holding a cigar in his mouth approaches andplacing the end of the cigar in the rest pushes it toward the burner.This motion turns on and lights the gas, and when the rest reaches theposition shown in dotted lines the cigar itself is lighted. As thesmoker then walks away the flame goes out. lf desired, the valve 3 maybe adjusted so that the flow of gas is reduced, but not entirelystopped, when the arm is retracted. In this case the flame will not beentirely extinguished, but will remain burning with a small consumptionof gas, and when a larger 'flow of gas is turned on by movement of thearm this larger Allow will be ignited from the small flame. This methodhas the advantage of dispensing with the electrical i gniting device andits attendant wires, terminals, and battery. lt is obvious that thespecific device shown may be varied in other ways without departing fromthe scope of the invention. Thus some other combustible instead ofilluminating-gas may be used, the main essentials being that themovement of the arm and rest toward the burner shall operate a valve orother controller for exposing and igniting the combustible andthemovetoward and from the flame thereof; means to retract the guideautomatically; and a valve for controlling the flame, the valve beingconnected With the guide and actuated by movement thereof, as and forthe purpose set forth.

- 3. In a cigar-lightingr device, the combination of a burner; a guidefor a cigar movable toward and from the burner; means to automaticallyretract the guide normally; and a valve vand igniter for the burner,both actuated by movement of the cigar-guide, as and for the purpose setforth.

4. In a cigar-lighting device a burner; a valve therefor; an armactuating the valve; an igniting device operated by the arm; an

abutment for a cigar on the arm; the Whole being actuated by pressure onthe abutment; and means to retract the abutment automatically from theburner, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a cigar-lighting device, a burner; a valve therefor; anactuating-arm for the valve; an abutment for a cigar on the arm; anigniter on the arm; a spring normally retracting thc arm; the Wholeactuated in one direction by pressure on said abutment, and .in theopposite direction by said retractingspring, as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two subscribingWitnesses.

JOSEPH I SHICKLUNA.

Witnesses:

' C. B. SHIOKLUNA,

E. SHERER.

